1972
Julie Gayet, French actress
Julie Gayet is a French actress and film producer. She is also known for being the wife of the former President of France, François Hollande.
Julie Gayet, French actress
The 1970s
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1972
Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey defenseman
Derian John Hatcher is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars,…
Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey defenseman
1972
Rob Huebel, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
Robert Anderson Huebel is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for his sketch comedy work on the MTV series Human Giant and for his role of Dr. Owen Maestro on the Adul…
Rob Huebel, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1972
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japane…
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
1972
Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (born 1894)
Francis Alexander O'Connor was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Supply and Shipping (1946–1948) and later the Department of Supply (1953–19…
Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (born 1894)
1972
Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (born 1892)
Fernand Amorsolo y Cueto was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art," he was the first-ever to be recognized as a …
Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (born 1892)
1972
George Sanders, English actor (born 1906)
George Henry Sanders was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as soph…
George Sanders, English actor (born 1906)
1972
Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana (born 1909)
Kwame Kofi Nkrumah, baptised Francis, was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it …
Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana (born 1909)
1972
Gia Scala, English-American model and actress (born 1934)
Gia Scala was a British and American actress.
Gia Scala, English-American model and actress (born 1934)
1972
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John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federa…
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1972
Kenneth Bailey, Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (born 1898)
Sir Kenneth Hamilton Bailey was a senior Australian public servant and lawyer, best known for his time as Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department between 1946 and 1964.
Kenneth Bailey, Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (born 1898)
1972
Emil Breitkreutz, American runner and coach (born 1883)
Emil William Breitkreutz was an American middle-distance runner who won a bronze medal in the Olympic 800 meters final in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri.
Emil Breitkreutz, American runner and coach (born 1883)
1972
Bruce Cabot, American actor (born 1904)
Bruce Cabot was an American film actor, best remembered as Jack Driscoll in King Kong (1933) and for his roles in films such as The Last of the Mohicans (1936), Fritz Lang's Fury (…
Bruce Cabot, American actor (born 1904)
1972
Father Chrysanthus, Dutch arachnologist (born 1905)
Wilhelmus Egbertus Antonius Janssen, better known as Father Chrysanthus OFMCap, was a Dutch priest and biology teacher. He was known for his studies in arachnology. Initially he wa…
Father Chrysanthus, Dutch arachnologist (born 1905)
1972
Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
Edward Calvin Kendall was an American biochemist. In 1950, Kendall was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with Swiss chemist Tadeusz Reichstein and Mayo Clini…
Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
1972
Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (born 1880)
Pandurang Vaman Kane was an Indian academic, historian, lawyer, Indologist, and Sanskrit scholar. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 1963.
Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (born 1880)
1972
Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (born 1921)
Beatrice Helen Worsley, better known as "Trixie" Worsely, was a Canadian computer scientist, the first woman in the country to work in that profession. She received her Ph.D. from …
Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (born 1921)
1972
Dan Blocker, American actor (born 1928)
Bobby Dan Davis Blocker was an American television actor and Korean War veteran, who played Hoss Cartwright in the NBC Western television series Bonanza.
Dan Blocker, American actor (born 1928)
1972
Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (born 1904)
Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the p…
Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (born 1904)
1972
Margaret Rutherford, English actress (born 1892)
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford was an English actress of stage, films and television.
Margaret Rutherford, English actress (born 1892)
1972
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (born 1894)
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in Decemb…
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (born 1894)
1972
Moe Berg, American baseball player, coach, and spy (born 1902)
Morris Berg was an American professional baseball catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He …
Moe Berg, American baseball player, coach, and spy (born 1902)
1972
Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic (born 1878)
Stepan Prokopovich Timoshenko, later known as Stephen Timoshenko, was a Ukrainian and later an American engineer and academician.
Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic (born 1878)
1972
Scottish trade unionist Jimmy Reid condemned the capitalist "rat race" in his inaugural address as Rector of the Univers
James Reid was a Scottish trade union activist, orator, politician and journalist born in Govan, Glasgow. His role as spokesman and one of the leaders in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilde…
Scottish trade unionist Jimmy Reid condemned the capitalist "rat race" in his inaugural address as Rector of the Univers